Sad, important thread. My son (23, 5th year engineering) got most of his uni done before AI became ubiquitous, but he looks at the kids coming up behind him and says feels lucky, like he caught "the last educational helicopter out of Saigon."
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/